[Bug 2857] New: Review request: xine-lib 1.2 - A multimedia engine

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 03 July 2013 at 23:54, RPM Fusion Bugzilla wrote:
[...]
> Currently, xine-lib is in Fedora, with all the possibly patent encumbered bits
> split into xine-lib-extras-freeworld in RPM Fusion. However, with xine-lib 1.2
> such a split is now longer possible, because ffmpeg is now needed to build
> xine-lib. According to current xine-lib maintainer there are 4 possible ways
> forward:
> (a) Stick with 1.1.x forever.
> (b) Package libavutil (and only libavutil) from FFmpeg in Fedora.

I'd consider (b) only if there are more packages that could be moved to
Fedora if libavutil were available.

> (c) Bundle parts or all of libavutil with xine-lib.
> (d) Move the whole thing (back) to RPM Fusion (where it originally was, before
> xine-lib was needed for Amarok and Phonon, which both no longer use it).

This would be my pick currently.

Regards,
Dominik

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